A “new” organization called the “Douglas Social Credit Council” headquarters in Edmonton. This w group and signed by J..P. Gillese, The circular protests the decision ef the National Council of the So- eial Credit Association of Canada that ‘fearless and informed Social Credit writers such as Norman Jacques, MP, were to be barred from the paper.” (Jacques is known widely in Canada and the U.S. as a frantic anti-Semite. Only recently he demanded Canada Murray rebuffed AKRON, O.—The CIO’s official policy of opposition towards form- ation of a third political party has received a sharp rebuff here in refusal of the executive board of the United Rubber Workers of America to endorse the majority position of President Philip Mur- ‘ray. The board voted to postpone “ action “until a later date.” Although it is generally consid- sred to be a right-wing union, the United Rubber Workers counts several Wallace supporters on its executive board and the third par- ty candidate has a strong follow- ing in Akron itself. | Splinter group of Alberta Social Credit | adopts 3-point fascist program By R. B, SWANKEY has been set up with as revealed in a circular letter send out by the new former editor of the “Canadian Social Crediter.” should refuse to give military aid to the UN in enforcing its decision to partition Palestine.) ; The circular also protests an al- leged decision by the National Council of Social Credit to the ef- fect that “there was to be no longer any effective exposure of communism and socialism.” is obviously untrue. One has only to read the Canadian Social Cred- iter, or to listen to Solon Low and Premier Manning to note that they devote most of their public pro. nouncements to slandering social- ism and communism. But appar- ently this is still not violent enough for this group.) It charged that the “Alberta gov- ernment was abandoning the fight for Social Credit in the province in favor of party politics in the federal field.” And it offers an “in- formation service” for $5 a year. Most significant of all is the statement of policy. “Our policy will be to advance Christian Dem- ocracy and personal freedom. Woe shall fearlessly attack and expose the three evils of genuine democ- racy—international finance, inter- national communism and interna- (This! tional Zionism (which for the most part is controlled by atheists and is also an enemy of the common Jew and of cultural and religious Judaism).” Here you have the real platform of the new organization. It is the platform of fascism. This is exact. ly the line being followed by yacques and others in the fascist wing of the Social Credit move- ment. Opportunists and crackpots they may be, but that makes them none the less dangerous. This new group is actually the result of the split that has been taking place in Social Credit re- cently. These self-styled “Dougias- ites” are the rabid anti-Semites and fascists in the party, some of who are presently» being kicked out. Only J. P. Gillese and K. Bur- ton were named as being behind the group. However, there is little doubt that it includes others, some of whom have recently parted ways: with the government, such as Jacques, “Ashby, Ansley, Byrnes and others still in high places in the Social Credit movement and government. UN misinformed on ‘free press’ —— eae Two weeks ago OI Bill referred in his column to a prepared statement submitted to the UN Commission on Human Rights. The author of this remarkable statement, all the “freedoms” of the press enjoyed in Canada and the “democratic” Ferguson, editor of the Montreal Daily Star. Pierre Gelinas, editor of the French-Canadian labor paper Com- bat, recently suppressed by Prem- jer, Maurice Duplessis, has written a personal letter to editor Ferguson of the Montreal Daily Star— —a letter which rips the thin ve- neer of hyprocracy off this vaunted “freedom of the press,” presented to the UN by. “Delegate” Ferguson. “T read, with a cynical smile, your article on press freedom and auman rights in last night’s issue of the Montreal Star. “The smile is not hard to under- stand. You see, last Monday, without any warning, and for no reason at all, the paper of which I am the editor, Combat, was pad- locked, Just like that. Some four- teen policemen walked into my of- fice, searched me without warrant, seized our papers, took our files, typewriters and equipment, and put @& padlock on the door. They also padlocked the printing plant where Combat was published. No explan- ation, no trials, no reasons, They just put a padlock on the door. “Then, on Wednesday, I read the first installment of your beautiful article on press freedom and hu- man rights. But there was no edi- torial on the padlocking of my pa- per, Combat. There was no word m any, English-language paper in Quebec. Just a dead silence! “Now, Sir, you have been telling the Russians and Czechs and the Poles in the UN Commission on Human Rights all about freedom of the press and opinion. You have been making some very pretty speeches at the Commission on Human Rights. Is it any wonder the Russians laugh! | jheard about freedom of the press outlining countries is G. V. “Do you think the people of Europe don’t know about Combat! . Do you imagine the French work- ers in the C.G.T. have not now PREMIER M. DUPLESSIS Almost 90 years ago Louis XIV of France interrupted a judge who had used the ex- pression “the king and the state” to remind the ‘Bench that “I am the State.” Today, in 1948, Premier and attorney-general Duplessis of Quebec mimicks the dessolute bourbon king, and says “I am the law’ a la Quebec’! They, too, Fer- guson, will laugh when you make your next speech on human free- dom. : 24 “Perhaps in your next speech before the Commission, you will in- dicate that you are not. speaking for the whole of Canada. Per- ° SUNDAY HORTICULTURA “BIG BUSINESS EXPOSED! Hear HAROLD PRITCHETT Secretary, B.C. Federation of Labor 8 pm... L HALL, 43ar and Fraser : Auspices South Vancouver Council LPP In Aid of the Pacific Tribune Press Drive haps there are certain exceptions, |like the province of Quebec, where your proposed Covenant on press freedom is too democratic, Per- haps you will be a little less force- ful in your criticism of the Poles and the Hungarians, and might find a word to say about your own country and your own newspaper. This is for you to decide. “You see, I am considering sending my own statement to Trygvie Lie and to all members of the Human Rights Commis- sion established by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The padlocking of the Combat office may not be of in- ternational importance. But it does show up the hyprocisy of those who claim that the Cana- dian people are given full free- dom to obtain and publish infor- mation which may not be to the liking of those in power. - Our paper, Combat, is a labor paper. It receives the support of a considerable number of trade union- ists. It expresses the point of view of those who favor peace, and not war; champions the rights of la- bor; vigorously fights against anti- semitism and other forms of racial discrimination. It stands for an independent Canadian policy which would save our country from sub. servience to the United States. “Mr. Duplessis didn’t like it. The Textile interests didn’t like it. Many wealthy directors of the trusts and monopolies of this Province didn’t like Combat. So they padlocked it. Your silence, Mr. Ferguson, and that of the Star, the Herald and the Gazette means assent. I ask, what then gives you the right to talk about freedom?” MARCH 7th » FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1948 Editor Gelinas concludes his let-| ter to Editor Ferguson of the mon- oply press with a postscript which speaks volumes for our ‘freedom of the press.” “My home address is 5586 Phillips Ave., Montreal. I re- gret I have no business office at present.” With the Padlock Law as the symbol of “human rights” in Duplessis’ Quebec, Editor Gel- inas could well have added that, by the same token, he may soon have no home! In the view of the LPP, success in the Saanich and how far the Johnson-Anscomb its policy of appeasing big busi- ness at the expense of the People. Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader, in a letter to Premier By- ron Johnson this week, statad: “The Labor-Progressive Party is | NIGEL MORGAN B.C. provincial leader, LPP strenuously and unalterably oppos- ed to any such measure because it is obvious that such a tax will only serve to increase considerably al- ready inflated living cbsts. “The sales tax is not only a re- gressive tax but it is a most dis- criminatory tax, against those least able to pay—the lower in- come groups and those with larger families. Such a tax falls most heavily on those forced to spend the largest proportion of their incomes on articles of con- sumption to which this tax will apply. three percent sales tax is the first r LPP leader protests proposed sales tax the announced proposal of a esult of the government’s Cariboo byelections, indicating Coalition is prepared to go in age pensioners, mother’s pensioners and others in the fixed income groups and low wage and salary brackets—to them it represents a grossly unjust and unbearable bur- den.” Morgan points out that the Sales tax is in direct opposition to the findings of the Goldenberg Com- mission which made an extensive study of taxation in British Colum. bia at the government’s behest, The letter to Premier Johnson urges the government to reconsider this new policy and to refrain from appeasing big business interests at the expense of the people by means ~ of a regressive shift in the tax load. Two more states form third party NEW YORK.—tThe new political party, with Henry Wallace as its candidate for president, has got off to a flying start in two more of the 48 states. At Newark, 1000 delegates to a New Jersey “Wallace for Presi- dent” conference voted to form a permanent third party, collected $10,000 to start it rolling, and in one day gathered enough signa- tures of registered voters to put Wallace on the ballot. On the same day in 1000 delegates organized the Pro- gressive Party of Michigan, set out to collect 9980 voters’ signa- tures for a place on the ballot. The 1000 delegates in Michigan included 400 from labor organiza- “Think of the plight of the old CLASS A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line ts made for notices appearing in this column. No notices will be accepted later than Monday noon of the week of publication. 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